WELCOME TO Confident Consultations On Weight Management

Aim: To equip community pharmacists (primary audience) with concise and practical guidance for delivering an effective weight loss service from their pharmacy. It will provide useful information and tips to allow for confident, patient-centred conversations with adults aged 18 years or over who are overweight or obese. 

Additionally, the training will emphasise the importance of engaging the whole pharmacy team, collaborating effectively within a wider multidisciplinary team and effectively linking with relevant local resources.

This series of training toolkits will include practical aspects involved in setting up and providing (or refreshing and updating) a weight management service for adults aged over 18 years. It will cover the full range of evidence-based weight loss interventions including tailored changes in diet and physical activity, the use of pharmacological treatments including GLP-1s, service set-up and specific consultation skills.

It has been written with input from community pharmacists and their teams who are already providing a service, from general practice perspectives, experienced lay people who have run weight management programmes and other relevant colleagues.

This is the first of six toolkits and covers pharmacy’s evolving role in weight management: